rainurer

French

Etymology

rainure +‎ -er

Verb

rainurer

1. to groove (add grooves to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rainurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rainurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rainurant /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɑ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rainuré /ʁɛ.ny.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rainure /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainures /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainure /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainurons /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɔ̃/	rainurez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁe/	rainurent /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/
	imperfect	rainurais /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɛ/	rainurais /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɛ/	rainurait /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɛ/	rainurions /ʁɛ.ny.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁjɔ̃/	rainuriez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁje/	rainuraient /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	rainurai /ʁɛ.ny.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁe/	rainuras /ʁɛ.ny.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁa/	rainura /ʁɛ.ny.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁa/	rainurâmes /ʁɛ.ny.ʁam/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁam/	rainurâtes /ʁɛ.ny.ʁat/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁat/	rainurèrent /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɛʁ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɛʁ/
	future	rainurerai /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁe/	rainureras /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁa/	rainurera /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁa/	rainurerons /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	rainurerez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁe/	rainureront /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rainurerais /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rainurerais /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rainurerait /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rainurerions /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	rainureriez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁje/	rainureraient /ʁɛ.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rainure /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainures /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainure /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	rainurions /ʁɛ.ny.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁjɔ̃/	rainuriez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁje/	rainurent /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/
	imperfect2	rainurasse /ʁɛ.ny.ʁas/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁas/	rainurasses /ʁɛ.ny.ʁas/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁas/	rainurât /ʁɛ.ny.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁa/	rainurassions /ʁɛ.ny.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	rainurassiez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁa.sje/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁa.sje/	rainurassent /ʁɛ.ny.ʁas/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rainure /ʁɛ.nyʁ/ or /ʁe.nyʁ/	—	rainurons /ʁɛ.ny.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁɔ̃/	rainurez /ʁɛ.ny.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ny.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “rainurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.